All Elite Wrestling knows how to end a show with a bang. Some of the best endings to Dynamite are surprised returns or heel turns. Last week’s closing segment featured one of the best booked segments ever to close out AEW’s premiere show. It continued stories, teased future ones, and kept everyone on the edge while new person after new person came to the ring. Attitude era style of booking at its finest! Let’s re-live that awesome segment one more time.
Utter Madness!
Here’s a quick rundown:
- Blackpool Combat Club attack the Hungbucks in frustration after losing
- Eddie Kingston returns to attack Claudio Castagnoli
- Jon Moxley confronts Eddie
- Young Bucks attack Moxley
- Konosuke Takeshita attacks Eddie from behind
- Kenny Omega attacks Takeshita from behind
- And, finally, Will Ospreay surprises everyone and takes out Omega
At its core, that segment was a wild journey of enemies attacking each other. One after another, someone had someone else they felt deserved an ass-whooping. But if we dive a little deeper, there was a lot more between the lines that went unsaid. And in the immortal words of a likeness of an egomaniac…
This is such good shit.
Forever Frenemies
Most of the layers throughout this segment revolve around the return of Eddie Kingston. Eddie and Claudio had an amazing bout at Supercard of Honor earlier this year, but that loss caused Eddie to disappear until this segment. They despise each other, so obviously Eddie was there to attack Claudio, right?
Well, it was, until Jon Moxley got involved. These friends turned enemies turned friends again went face to face in the middle of the fracas. Before they could decide what they were going to do, the Young Bucks attacked Moxley from behind. Eddie protected Moxley from the Bucks despite being pushed by his former friend. He felt it was his duty to be the only one to attack Moxley. His responsibility to decide the fate of Mox. The only one capable of taking out the Ace of AEW.
Unfortunately, everything here got cut short because Konosuke Takeshita knocked Eddie out from behind. Now AEW is great with teasing future matches, but there were three Eddie Kingston teases in one portion of a segment– Claudio, Moxley, and Takeshita. If you know Eddie Kingston, he’s not going to take a blindside hit lightly.
Round 2 Here We Come!
This segment started with the Hungbucks and Blackpool Combat Club and ended with Will Ospreay standing tall over Kenny Omega. Every wrestling fan and their grandmother believes that Omega and Ospreay’s Wrestle Kingdom bout is Match of the Year in 2023 so far. Nothing has come close to that match. The hype of another round between those two would have been enough to create an amazing closing segment of Dynamite. Tony Khan decided to pop this cherry on top of an already amazing segment.
The stakes are set for Forbidden Door. It’s a battle between the former New Japan king and the present. Unfortunately, Kenny Omega won’t appear on this week’s Dynamite, but doing so would cheapen the gravitas of this segment. Ospreay got the best of Omega here, can Omega get the best of Ospreay on Sunday…again?